K.N.O.W. Vaccines - Vaccine Controversy

The Fundamental Issue

Three Myths

The Alan Yurko Story

The Autism - Vaccine Connection

Pro-Vaccine Arguments

Pro-Choice Arguments

What you Don't Hear About

Good Questions to Ask

Who Supports Informed Consent

Bioterrism Legislation and Information on Anthrax and Smallpox!

Three Myths About Vaccines

In order to legitimize our policy of mandated mass vaccination, the pharmaceutical industry that manufacturers vaccines with toxic chemicals in them and the regulatory agencies that mandate that these products be injected into the bloodstreams of our children must perpetrate three primary myths about vaccination, namely:

Vaccines are Safe
Vaccines are Effective
All Children Must Be Vaccinated

Are Vaccines Safe?

There are known risks associated with vaccination, including paralysis, brain damage, shock, encephalopathy, and death. In addition to being not adequately informed about these risks from their pediatricians, parents are also not informed about the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). This database receives over 1000 reports per month of adverse reactions from vaccination. Both doctors and CDC officials admit that only a fraction of adverse incidents are reported to VAERS (approximately 10%). Because VAERS is a passive reporting system, doctors are not required to report adverse vaccine reactions. Thus, studies that report there is no statistical proof that vaccination causes autism and other assorted autoimmune and neurological diseases are inconclusive, at best, because the statistics are not compiled.

Most parents are also unaware that the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program has paid out over 1.2 billion dollars in damages to families of vaccine-injured or vaccine-deaths since 1986, yet still turns away three out of four vaccine victims to cope on their own. Meanwhile, because of a complex network of state and federal laws, doctors and vaccine manufacturers are exempt from any liability and continue to profit while taking no financial responsibility for vaccine related injuries and deaths.

All drugs are toxic; vaccines are drugs. Vaccines contain known toxic chemicals and carcinogens, and they are produced in animal tissues (as well as in the tissues of aborted fetuses). It is almost inconceivable that the heavy burdens of foreign immunologic materials from some 22 - 30 vaccines with known toxic chemicals, which are introduced into the immature immune systems of children, could fail to bring about disruptions and adverse reactions in these systems.

Are Vaccines Effective?

Measles, mumps, smallpox, polio, HIB, and pertussis (whooping cough) have all occurred in highly vaccinated populations. Though immunity is considered to be conferred when antibody levels are high, infections have occurred in individuals with high antibody titers against the specific disease antigens. The evidence, therefore, suggests that vaccinations are an unreliable means of preventing disease outbreaks.

While we credit the decline of low infectious disease rates to mass vaccination, it is impossible to say that vaccination alone improved the incidence of epidemics because the disease rates declined before the introduction of vaccines (some by 95% percent). The credit given may even be exaggerated as evidenced by a World Health Organization report that states in Third World countries there is no direct correlation of low infectious disease rates with vaccines, however there is a direct correlation of low infectious disease rates with improved hygiene and diet.

The only life-long immunity is from natural diseases. No vaccine confers life-long immunity. Vaccination induces artificial immunity, which is "temporary". Because specific antibody levels drop over time, the need for "booster" shots is required. The risks for injury from vaccination increase with every additional vaccination due to the accumulation of toxic adjuvants as well as, in susceptible children, inappropriate immune responses from over-vaccination. Artificial immunity from vaccination has also created a new phenomenon of atypical forms of the original disease showing up later in life.

In addition to waning "artificial" immunity over time, vaccines are also becoming less effective due to disease mutations. The scientific community now recognizes that the overuse of antibiotics is causing viral and bacterial pathogens to mutate into more virulent forms, thus jeopardizing the effectiveness of antibiotic use. The same is phenomena is happening with vaccination.

Does Every Child Need Vaccinations?

The rationale for a policy of mandated vaccination is predicated on the herd immunity theory: the more people vaccinated, the more protected the unvaccinated are. Yet, medical authorities recognize that certain conditions are exempt from vaccination: people with known neurological conditions and autoimmune diseases are at risk for complications and a worsening of those conditions with vaccination. Indeed, vaccines are "contraindicated" for people with these conditions.

One-size-fits-all vaccine policies do not recognize that some individuals are genetically or otherwise biologically at risk for suffering vaccine-induced injury or death. Yet there is little or no attempt to identify and screen these high-risk individuals out.